wget2 with SOCKS
Make sure you have a local copy of the artifact
(git clone git@github.com:explainwf-popets2023/explainwf-popets2023.github.io.git).
The wget2 directory contains a custom patch we wrote for wget2 that enables SOCKS
protocol support.
Run $ make wget2 to clone the wget2 tool repository and apply our patch.
You can run $ make build to build the patched version of wget2 if you have all
the necessary prerequisite files installed, or you can run $ make build_nix to
build the tool if you have nix installed on the building machine, which will
download the required prerequisites.
To use a SOCKS5 proxy, use the http-proxy swtich: the http-proxy option has been overwritten. For example, to fetch pages using a SOCKS proxy running on localhost (127.0.0.1) running on port 9050, provide the switches:
--http-proxy=127.0.0.1:9050 --https-proxy=127.0.0.1:9050
NB This patch is brittle and should not be used in any production code.